Victim's family sues Volusia County school where alleged attacker worked

Family seeks $15,000

WESH 2's Claire Metz first reported that a former teacher at Warner Christian Academy in South Daytona arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography is facing new accusations of victimizing children on the school campus.

Victim's family sues Volusia County school where alleged attacker worked

FBI agents said Graziotti molested young students during a sleepover at his home and filmed it.

Another child has stepped forward saying Graziotti assaulted him on a summer field trip.

"These children are such a young tender age this is going to follow them for the rest of their lives," said Noah Prosser, the victim's attorney.

The child's family has filed a civil suit seeking $15,000 in damages from Warner Christian Academy.

"Matthew Graziotti made it a point to have my client sit next to him on the bus when they were going to this field trip to a Kissimmee water park, and it was on the bus, as well as the water park, where the sexual assaults occurred," said Jason Harr, another attorney representing the victim.

According to the law suit, Graziotti told the child the sexual attacks were nothing more than "horse play."

The lawsuit alleges it wasn't thorough enough, and that if it had been, school officials would have seen charges were dropped in a similar case in Edgewater in 2004.

"They would have known that Matthew Graziotti had trouble with a previous appointment with an Edgewater church and that he was not fit to be a camp counselor much less a teacher or have any involvement with children whatsoever," Harr said.